Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft wording could not disguise the fact the nation's foremost lawyers (A.B.A. membership: 94,000) had told the nation's highest court that they were thoroughly perturbed about the state of U.S. internal security law as court decisions had left...
Many observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
...second vice-president will be responsible for the organization's external activities, and will take charge of membership in Young Democratic clubs on the statewide and national levels. The first vice-president will now be in charge of the club's internal activities...
...Tarbes and Lourdes, a churchman who has long battled commercialization of France's famed shrine (TIME, July 21). This time Bishop Théas' anger was aimed at Lourdes' own Roman Catholic Information Center: "Henceforth Catholics must, as a matter of conscience, abstain from membership, gifts or subscriptions [to the center]. The presence on its committee of priests foreign to the diocese is an aggravating circumstance...
...campaign against canned music is being mounted by New York City's big (30,000 members ) Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Calling itself "the first victim of automation,'' the federation (total membership: 260,000) says that only 75,000 members now make a living from music (average: $3,500 yearly). The union also reports a serious shortage of young string players, is handing out a minimum of 50 scholarships a year for instrumental students. Local 802 is particularly concerned with New York City's still relatively lusty night life, is spending...